From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josh Poimboeuf Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: old_name.number scheme in livepatch sysfs directory Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 09:03:06 -0600 Message-ID: <20151103150306.GI27488@treble.redhat.com> References: <20151102203241.GF27488@treble.redhat.com> <1446505187-28970-1-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com> <20151103124440.GK2599@pathway.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151103124440.GK2599-KsEp0d+Q8qECVLCxKZUutA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Petr Mladek Cc: Miroslav Benes , Chris J Arges , live-patching-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, jeyu-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, Seth Jennings , Jiri Kosina , Vojtech Pavlik , linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 01:44:41PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > Also I would omit the suffix at all when it is the first occurrence. > It will cause that unique symbols will not be numbered. That would make parsing the entry unnecessarily harder and more error-prone. I think it should always have the suffix, so it's consistent and there are no surprises. -- Josh